SBQ: What do you do with oorts?
Posted by Cyn | Filed under SBQ
The current Stitching Blogger’s Question is:
What do you do to your thread clippings? Do you just scrap them or do
you use them in something else?
I throw them away, as I don’t know what else I would do with them. The only possible use I know of is a vague memory of someone on RCTN using them to fill witch balls (glass fishing floats?). I’m curious as to what other people do with them, though.
Tags: Needlework, oorts, SBQ
SBQ: Stitching Publications
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Needlework, SBQ
The Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week:
Do you currently subscribe to any stitching publications or have you in the past? (Either in print or online) If so, which ones?
I don’t subscribe to any at the moment, and I rarely buy them off the rack. I have hundreds of them in my stash, and I keep meaning to go through and just keep the designs I’m still planning to stitch, but I never get around to doing it! I stopped buying them because I realized that I haven’t ever stitched one single pattern in any of those hundreds of magazines.
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Tags: cross stitch, magazines, Needlework, patterns, SBQ, Stitching, subscriptions
SBQ: Sick of a WIP?
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Relationships, SBQ
The Stitching Blogger’s Question of the Week is:
Do you ever get to a point working on a project that you’ve had for so
long, you start to wonder what possessed you to start it in the first
place?
Of course! It has always happened with patterns I chose to do for someone else, though, rather than those I chose because I was interested in them. There are a few WIPs that have outlived the relationships that inspired them, and they may never be finished. That’s a bit embarrassing, but in at least one case I wouldn’t have ever started the piece if I’d really known what an unstable, vicious being the intended recipient was.
Tags: SBQ
SBQ: Stitching Terms/Acronyms
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Needlework, SBQ
This week’s Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week:
For seasoned stitchers: Define a stitching term or acronym for new
stitchers.
Gah. I don’t play in the needlework newsgroup any more, so I don’t think in acronyms. Railroading is the only term that I can think of that wasn’t obvious or explained in a pattern’s instructions. There’s a decent explanation here, and an article with good photos here.
Tags: cross stitch, railroading
SBQ: Family Heirlooms
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Family, Needlework, SBQ
And another Stitching Blogger Question of the week, which should leave me all caught up:
Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future
generations as family heirlooms?
At one time, I thought so. My mother has a Tigerlily piece I did for her, and my father has a big Marine Corps Emblem that hangs in his office. Unfortunately, the first piece I ever framed and gave to them suffered smoke damage, and I haven’t been able to get it completely clean yet. They haven’t expressed any interest in having it back, either. Mom stuck another piece I did and gave to her in a drawer, and forgot that I’d done it at all.
Some of the pieces I did for my first husband’s family, like a baby sampler and a nice serving tray, may get passed on. Maybe. They may have gotten rid of them because of the association with an ex-spouse. Who knows?
Tags: Bloom Where You Are Planted, cross stitch, Debra Designs, heirlooms, Janet Powers, Marine Corps Emblem, Spring Bouquet, Tigerlily
